SPEECH OF HON. J. F. DOWDELL, OF ALABAMA, ON THE NEBRASKA AND KANSAS BILL, an address delivered in the United States House of Representatives.

In the speech Dowdell argues in favor of a clause in the bill that would repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820. He objects to a provision of the act that prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36ø 30' latitude line: "This line of 36ø 30', and the injustice and ine...

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